Reference code: CHAR 20/122/62

Date: 27 Oct 1943

Scope/content:

Telegram from WSC to Anthony Eden [Later Lord Avon] (Moscow [Soviet Union]) marked "Most Secret" informing him that he has given Marshal Stalin General Sir Harold Alexander's [Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Mediterranean Theatre] telegram and that he warned him of its possible effects on Overlord [Liberation of France] as Britain was not prepared to risk a defeat in Italy.